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Album review: Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Stage Whisper has all the quirky melodies, wonderfully plastique production and effortless Gallic cool that we associate with the best French pop but it didn’t feel like a proper album.

Charlotte Gainsbourg’s album fails to push all the buttons (Picture: Because)

She sings (and acts) in English, with the same breathy, upper-middle-class accent as her mother, Jane Birkin.

However, her music has all the quirky melodies, wonderfully plastique production and effortless Gallic cool that we associate with the best recent French pop.

This stop-gap release features five excellent Beck compositions that didnât make it to her last album and three forgettable songs written for her by Connan Mockasin, Conor OâBrien and Charlie Fink.

The remaining 11 tracks are a live set, mixing compositions by Air and Jarvis Cocker from her 2006 album, 5:55, with those by Beck, and a Dylan cover.